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You got me wrong - I'm using my hobo to compensate for the fact that I'm drinking a thimbleful of 16-bar espresso with my little finger projecting... instead of roasting my own foraged beans, grinding them with flint and boiling them in buckskin.

(more demos: http://www.archaeolink.co.uk/Mesolithic-Age.html)

Handpresso, for a treat. Not very hairy-chested; but does hobo-boiling the water compensate ?

Blast! To make matters worse (not sure I should be admitting this), it's actually biometrically accurate: the dimensions are scaled from a photo. Laser removal time ?

Just made-up stuff, representing family members: puma, gazelle, raven, squid. You'll probably need to squint quite a lot to see any resemblance. (but for the squid, they're runic; in that they needn't go with the grain)

They're not on a T-shirt, but my pictograms do adorn my arm. Is that taking it a bit too seriously ?

The experience of some would contradict this, but I absolutely agree that the use of inappropriate equipment for live quarry should be discouraged. For this reason, I retract what I said.

Me being a poor shot, my TDR has a big scope and a bipod, which bulks it up even more. That's without the pump. Some pistols are OK for rabbits; and better for ratting. You can even fit a death ray, if you're that way inclined.

Support these fellows: http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/ (they'll send you warnings)

+1, be it Back o'Bennachie, Glen Tanar, or hiding from Fred. If it's at the Back, we could maybe look at wet fires, as Fred has suggested elsewhere (correct me if I'm speaking out of place, Fred).

I'd always thought that removing the tsuba gives you unrealistic flexibility (I say "unrealistic" - don't take that to mean that I get into regular sword fights). But I also wanted to keep a memory of the original branch: earlier attempts retained the bark around the tsuba. And I'm too tight...

For everyone that's posted a new knife or a new wooden spoon, one of my (square-butted) bokken attempts. I snapped it myself, before it took someone's eye out in the dojo. I got the piece of ash from a mate, and there was one knot I couldn't avoid.

(I've always wanted something to 'beat them off with')

Be careful of experimenting with recipes to keep the children happy. The addition of chocolate powder may yield unfortunate visual effects.

This has since seen a fair bit of use. Packs down neatly for trips when weight isn't a problem. We also went for a simpler all-weather chair for the garden (hung from a sea buckthorn).

Where's that book you promised us ? Even if it's just a photo catalogue, it's going to be popular with a lot of BCUK.

Nice one ! You must be bursting... to try it out.

The holes cover less than half of the circumference - I limited them to where I imagined the "burble" would separate. Face into the wind for wood fuel, face away for gas. It works fine with my gas stove, but that may be because its flame will be more stable. I don't have a close-up to prove...

A bit off-topic, but I'm heartened to see another shield being used with a billy (as opposed to the more orthodox hobo stove). I've replaced the billy handle with wire of a length that retains it (and, perhaps unadvisedly, pimped it by replacing aluminium with stainless). Mine's sized for a...

I'm looking at the tracery of white lines on my left forefinger, but they've all healed with little drama. The fact that there are several proves that it took a variety of blades for me to learn my lesson.